Vision-language-action (VLA) models aim to map multimodal inputs to robot actions. However, most existing approaches struggle to cover complex dynamic scenarios due to treating all visual tokens uniformly and reasoning with human-selected factors, which lack mechanisms to emphasize task-critical evidence and ignore underlying factors.
arXiv:2607. 08182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models aim to map multimodal inputs to robot actions.
By Qi Lyu, Baicheng Liu, Xudong Wang, Jiahua Dong, Lianqing Liu, Zhi Han
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